Karnataka SSLC Sociology (KSEAB) case studies
Karnataka SSLC Sociology (KSEAB) · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Sociology is one component of the Karnataka SSLC Social Science paper, so candidates meet it alongside History, Geography, Political Science and Economics rather than as a standalone subject. The syllabus moves from the discipline itself - its meaning, nature and scope - through core concepts such as society, community, association, institution, group and culture, then into social structure, stratification and mobility. The Karnataka SSLC Sociology (KSEAB) case studies are 5 cases and about 3,654 words.
1Hosahalli: Is the Temple a Building? Classifying Community, Association, Institution and Group
Hosahalli, a village of about 1,800 people in Ranebennur taluk (Haveri district), has 380 households in three residential clusters. Within it are: (i) a milk producers' co-operative, registered in 1987, with 212 members, written bye-laws and an elected board that meets on the first Sunday of every month; (ii) a 400-year-old Lakshmi temple whose hereditary priest performs daily worship and whose annual fair all three clusters attend; (iii) the Sri Rama Yuva Sangha, a youth club of 40 young men formed in 2019 to run a cricket tournament; (iv) a caste elders' council that meets only when there is a dispute.
769 words, about 4 min2The Kariyappa Family: Reading Caste and Class Through Three Kinds of Mobility
In a village near Koppal, the Kariyappa family's story is often quoted at the local degree college. Kariyappa's father was landless, worked as a farm labourer for a Gowda landlord, and could not read.
722 words, about 4 min3Meena and Kiran: Nature, Nurture and the Agencies of Socialization
Meena, 15, was born in a village in Kolar district and lived with her grandmother until she was six, in a house with no television and few visitors. Her parents, who had migrated to a town near Bengaluru for work, then brought her to live with them and her younger brother Kiran, who was born in the town.
720 words, about 4 min4The Bypass and the Canal: Competition, Conflict and Accommodation in a Belagavi Village
A four-lane bypass and a sugar factory came up three years ago on the edge of a village in Belagavi district. Of the 240 landholding families, 61 sold land to the factory at high prices; the rest refused, and today their borewells yield less water because the factory draws from the same canal.
693 words, about 3 min5The Soliga Family in Town: Tribe, Caste, Class and a Hostel Campaign
In a town in Chamarajanagar district, a Soliga family - father, mother and three children - has lived for four years in a rented room on the edge of town after leaving its hamlet inside the forest when restrictions were placed on collection and cultivation. The father works as a daily-wage labourer; the mother sells honey and gooseberries at the bus stand.
750 words, about 4 min